Crippled CentOS install

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The company I work for has DirectAdmin running on a CentOS 5.0 install. The DirectAdmin seems to be working properly but the CentOS is deteriorating rapidly. This morning the OS crashed hard and after several hours I was able to get it limping along well enough to see that the websites were still there.

Clearly we need to reinstall this OS from scratch (I already tried "upgrading" it to the same version, to no avail), or perhaps switch to a Debian-based distro that we're more familiar with. However, I don't know how to back up the DirectAdmin configuration and files and then restore them to the new system. How would I do that?